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DARCY PORTER.

` SEWING MACHINE TABLE.

No. 323,529. l Patented Aug. 4, 1885.

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Unirse Pnrnnr Carien DARCY PORTER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO rIHE YVHITE SEW'ING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SEWING-MACHINE TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,529, dated August; 4., 1885.

Application filed January 26, 1885. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, DAncr PORTER, of Cleveland, inthe county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine Tables; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to sewing-machine ta! bles; and it consists in an improved metal 'frame-work composed of cast-metal plates'for supporting the drawers and bolts or rods for securing the plates together, the whole suspended from the under side of the table.

In the drawings, Figure l is a detached perspective view of my invention, arranged for the accommodation of two drawers, with one drawer in place. Fig. 2 is a view in verzo tical cross-section ofthe same,with two drawers in place. Fig. 3 is a detached view ofthe metal tubing by which the bolts are covered. Fig. 4f is a detached view of one of the bolts or rods by means of which the parts are held together. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a sewing-machine table with a nest of three drawers suspended from it by my improved mechanism. Fig. 6 is a det-ached view of the upper side of one of the cast-inetal plates.

In the drawings, A represents the drawers of a sewing machine table that are suspended from the under side of the table; A', the sides of the drawers, and A? the bottom of the same.

B represents one of my improved castmetal plates, that is intended to support the drawer. This plate is provided upon its upper side with a guide-lange, B, in the forni of a parallclogram, upon which the drawers slide and .lo which prevent thelateral displacement of the drawers, as the sides A of the drawers are so constructed as to extend below the bottom A2 and bear against the guide-flangeB, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The east-metal plate B is also provided with holes B3, for the passage of the bolts or rods C, and also with the elongated opening or slot B", for the passage ot'alock-bolt. The locks may be attached to alternate drawers, and the bolt passing through the opening B* may lock the drawer u above as well as the drawer 'to which it is secured; or each drawer may be supplied with a lock.

C C C C are bolts or rods for securing the lower plates, B B, to the top plate, E. These rods may be made in the i'orm of a bolt and provided with ahead at one end and a thread and nut at the other, as shown in the drawings, Figs. 2 and et, or in the form of a rivet.

D D are tubular rods out the proper length to separate the cast-metal plates B and E the proper distance to admit the drawers A. The rodor bolt C passes through these tubular rods D, as shown in Fig. 2.'V The upper end of the tubular rod D bears against the lower side of t-he upper plate, while the lower end `rests upon the upper side of the lower plate,

thereby preventing these plates from being drawn together by the bolt or rod C closer than the length of the tube D.

The upper plate, E, is provided with screwholes E', by means of which it is secured to the under side of a sewing-machine table by ordinary wood-screws.

The plates B and E and tubular rods D may be nickel plated, or the plates B and E may be japanned and ornamented,and the tubular rods plated, therebymaking the device highly ornamental.

In the drawings I have shown iny'device as constructed for two or three drawers. It is equally adapted for any number of drawers byadding the necessary number of plates B and lengthening the rods C.

Having described my invention, what I claim S l. The combinatiomwith a sewing-machi ne table, of a drawer-supportconsisting of metal. plates connected together by means of bolts and secured to the under side of the table, 9o substantially as and for the purposes shown and described.

2. In a sewing-machine table, a drawer-support suspended from the under side of the table, consisting of the metal plates B, provided with a guide-Harige, B', said plat-es connected together and supported by bolts7 snb- In testimony whereof I sign this specificastantially as shown and described. tion, in the presence of two Witnesses, this 17 th Io 3. In a sewing-machine table, t draWer-snpday of January, 1885.

port suspended from the under side of the 7 T 5 table, and consisting of metal plates connected D ARCX PORTER together by bolts, and the tubular rods D, sur- Witnesses: rounding the bolts and separating the plates, FREDK. KINsMAN,

substantially as shown and described. G. YV. SHUMWAY. 

